BIB_ID
291169
Accession number
MA 113.37
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1850 Feb. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Charles Dickens to his brother-in-law Henry Austin. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 113 for more information.
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Written from Devonshire Terrace. Signed "CD."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1894.
Summary
Stating that Dickens "ought to know the kind of man" [to replace Alexander Bain as Assistant Secretary of the General Board of Health], and asking Austin to give Dickens "another day to try to remember him."
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